Tag: movies set in Los Angeles
Christmas or Otherwise, Die Hard Reflects How The System Is Designed to Stymie Everything (Particularly in the Event of an Emergency or Special Circumstance)
While Die Hard, to those who don’t look beyond its big-budget, explosive-filled surface, might seem like just another “light” action movie, the John McTiernan-directed feature has [Read More…]
Emily the Criminal Underscores the Cycle of Poverty in All Its Unavoidability As a Law-Abiding Sap
While everyone is still focused on Aubrey Plaza’s performance as Harper Spiller in The White Lotus, it bears reminding the masses of another Plaza performance [Read More…]
Wrath of Toxic Masculinity: Guy Ritchie’s Latest Displays A Comical Disregard for the Present
Maybe it was only a matter of time before Nicolas Boukhrief’s 2004 movie, Le Convoyeur, was bound to be remade. Called Cash Truck en anglais [Read More…]
Angel-A: City of Angels (a.k.a. Wings of Desire) Meets It’s A Wonderful Life
While the ending of Angel-A has a certain taint to its “forced hand” nature in terms of “persuading” (with physical coercion) a girl that she [Read More…]
Will Kill For Fame: Spree
While some critics have likened Spree to a “modern version” of American Psycho, it is so much more depressing than that. At least in terms [Read More…]
“Not Economically Viable”: The Lessons of Falling Down Remain Unlearned
Considering that screenwriter Ebbe Roe Smith himself was born in Southern California, he knew all too well the ripple effect that transpired when the aerospace [Read More…]
Phyllis Thinks She’s Hot Shit Because She’s A Sociopath, Or: Double Indemnity & The Two-Dimensional Femme Fatale
Billy Wilder wasn’t exactly known for creating complex female characters, more predisposed instead to focusing on his male heroes and/or their buddy dynamic (which was [Read More…]
Vivian Ward Listening to Headphones in the Bathtub: A Cry for Help
Those few who remain nostalgic about the way romantic comedies used to be (in part, because we as a society were still able and conditioned [Read More…]
